What are the responsibilities and job description for the Injection Molding Engineer position at Meet Life Sciences?
🚨 Now Hiring: Senior Staff Plastics Supplier Development Engineer
I’m currently looking for a highly experienced Plastics / Injection Molding Engineer supporting a leading medical device organization.
This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of engineering, suppliers, tooling, and advanced injection molding technology and wants to make a direct impact on high-volume medical manufacturing.
🔧 What You’ll Be Doing:
- Serve as a Plastics SME for injection molding tooling and part design
- Lead tooling and molding cell development with global suppliers
- Support new product introductions, DFM, tooling kickoffs, and process improvements
- Review plastic and silicone part designs and identify opportunities to improve manufacturability
- Utilize Moldflow, DFM, risk assessment, and root-cause analysis techniques
- Develop and standardize tooling specifications, FAT processes, and best practices
- Lead technical solutions involving molding equipment, automation, hot runners, vision systems, and tooling
- Partner closely with Quality, Sourcing, Lifecycle Engineering, and supplier teams
- Drive cost savings, process optimization, and reduction of component variation
- Help introduce and expand advanced molding technologies across the supplier network
🧪 What We’re Looking For:
- Bachelor’s degree in Plastics, Mechanical, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field
- 8 years of experience in plastics injection molding, tooling, and/or part design
- Strong experience with injection molding technologies and tooling
- Experience with silicone manufacturing/molding strongly preferred
- Knowledge of Scientific Injection Molding
- Experience with Moldflow, DFM, RCA, and risk assessment
- Experience working directly with suppliers and cross-functional engineering teams
- Strong communication, leadership, and influencing skills
- Experience with medical polymers or medical device manufacturing is a major plus
⭐ Preferred Technical Experience:
- Cube molds, two-shot, and stack molding
- Silicone processing and tooling
- Cavity pressure sensors
- Complete molding cells, including automation and vision inspection
- Six Sigma / process improvement
- Tooling and supplier development programs
✈️ Travel: Approximately 15–25%, with up to 40% possible depending on business needs.
If you're a senior plastics/injection molding engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and working directly with suppliers, I'd love to connect.
📩 DM me or reach out directly for more details!
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